Not a huge fan of the looks of the TT bike but appreciate the work gone into it. I do like the dual Di2 shifters though and the way he has intergrated the rest of Di2 into the bike (are you taking notes, bike manufacturers??!!)

The TT bike and the 29er are both works of art. Ducati has been proving steel for decades and while I love my carbon roadie, I can get a boner over steel too We have his and hers Surly Moonlanders arriving on Wednesday to prove it.

barefoot wrote:The stiffness of steel is pretty much constant for all steel alloys, Youngs Modulus about 200 GPa.

If you want stiffness, you need fat tubes. But this bike does not have fat tubes.

If you have a strong enough steel, you can have fat tubes with very thin walls, which makes them quite light as well as being stiff.

tim

That's an informative answer thanks. I had to take issue with Sogoods description of it as a noodle. To have won Oregon state tt titles, it's clearly not.It has thin profile tubes presumably to be aero, which it must achieve without being too flexy

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